Yglesias on Nelson and the Stimulus

Thought I'd add this for discussion purposes:

The stimulus bill is huge. It's huge because the macroeconomic situation requires a huge stimulus. The stimulus bill is also multi-faceted. And it needs to be multifaceted because it's so huge. Targeted tax cuts can be good stimulus, but you can't do $850 billion of well-targeted tax cuts. Infrastructure can be good stimulus, but you can't do $850 billion of good infrastructure projects. Long story short, the grab-bag character of the stimulus is a feature rather than a bug.

You can read the whole post here.

H/T to Neal Obermeyer who posted this at Nealo.com.